Archive for
February
2018 - Page 3

(Calif.) Recognizing the critical stage of California’s nascent school accountability system, Gov. Jerry Brown offered close to $76 million in his January budget to help with the work of improving struggling school districts.

(Mont.) In a state with one of the highest rates of suicide in the country, recent actions taken by lawmakers to boost mental health resources in schools and improve teacher training on the subject are applauded by community leaders.

(Calif.) Lawmakers are expected to hold an informational hearing later this month to consider drastic changes to the role and responsibility of the state schools chief—potentially even asking voters to eliminate the office.

(Calif.) Even before the Trump White House rolled back some of the healthy choice mandates on school meals put into place by the Obama administration, “plate waste” among school children was an ongoing problem.

(N.Y.) New York City schools now employ a record high number of full-time credentialed art teachers that are giving more students across various demographics greater access to a range of creative disciplines, according to a new report.